University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Alma College President Jeff Abernathy has informed the board of trustees he will be stepping down following 14 years at his post, according to a school statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The happiest respondents earned their degrees in computer and information sciences, and criminology. Holders of computer science degrees are finding their skills in high demand all across the workforce—from tech to consulting to management, where they are being offered average salaries of $100,000 or more, ZipRecruiter says.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

Paula Krebs, the executive director of the Modern Language Association of America, stated that “[s]cience, technology and business courses and majors are not enough for WVU to offer if it wants to produce fully informed and thinking citizens for West Virginia.” Most drastically, it eliminated the entire World Languages department.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our data set includes information on hiring at 391 Ph.D.-granting In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s The new data, described below and available publicly , largely complement the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates. granting universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Homogeneity and uniformity are generally the rule, not an education with distinguishing characteristics. Homogeneity and uniformity are generally the rule, not an education with distinguishing characteristics. Sure, there are exceptions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Image: DENVER—On the final morning of last week’s Educause conference here, a surprisingly large group of die-hards gathered for a panel discussion entitled “CIO or No: Not All IT Leadership Roles Lead to the Chief Information Officer.” “Yay, that’s progress!”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” I’m going to hear about this.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. Njumbe’s ability to teach himself and process new information isn’t just restricted to math, science, or other STEM courses, which he said are his favorite. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree.

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MindMax

JANUARY 4, 2023

As MindMax dug into the details, our team uncovered more information about each school’s unique challenges. How MindMax has helped schools across the country boost web traffic, increase student response rates, grow enrollments, and generate millions of dollars in additional revenue. The Challenge: Low Enrollment Rates for Summer Sessions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The easy-to-navigate site structure allows audiences to quickly find the information most relevant to them, whether they are a current DMU student, a recent graduate, or a nontraditional student seeking to return to school. We would like to spotlight these five campaigns and share the strategy behind these award-winning efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. These increases are a good sign.” respectively.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. “With the amount of information going around and a lot of the misinformation and a lot of the confusion and all of the policies that came out of it, it just opened my eyes to what policy is and how we create policy. in public health in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. A Plea for Help. That’s what we were expecting.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sociology and liberal arts/general studies were tied for second place (72%), followed by communications (64%), education (61%), marketing (60%), medical/clinical assisting (58%), political science/government (56%), biology (52%), and English literature/language (52%). The number of international students enrolled in U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately. We stepped back into the classroom. I asked him what the concern was.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills. The images they produce might run the gamut from abstract doodles to colorful narrative scenes.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” Mastery of such vocational fields as physical therapy, accounting, marketing, hospitality management and culinary arts ought not “require a uniform four-year program,” the authors claim. Wrote one, “Electives help round out a personal’s exposure to the arts, sciences, etc.,

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Another 11 students in the master of fine arts program enrolled in eight sections and five unique courses. Our BSDT students are meeting expected outcomes in retention, graduation and learning, including outcomes related to their performance in Clark liberal studies courses.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering.

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University Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Elon University, a private university based in the liberal arts in North Carolina, recently announced that it’s promising that 90% of its students will reach a foundational level of “data competency” by the time they graduate. As the nature of work changes, more industries demand that new employees be data literate.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“We’ve modeled what a more open search that’s acceptable to the board, faculty, staff and students looks like,” said Will Barndt, an associate professor of political science at Pitzer. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

This makes it easier for potential students, faculty, and stakeholders to find information about academic programs, research opportunities, and campus life. Source: Google John Cabot University is the top search engine reply page for “liberal arts university in Rome”. If you’re wondering, “ How do I leverage SEO for my website?

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